31 year old Peter Connor of Hollands Road, Hindley has been charged with the murder of 21-year-old Billy Livesley, from Platt Bridge.

He has been remanded to appear at Wigan Magistrates’ Court tomorrow (Friday 4 January 2019).

The charges are in relation to an incident which took place outside a house on Bickershaw Lane on Friday 28 December 2018. Billy suffered serious injuries as a result of the assault and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

He sadly died the following evening and a Home Office Post Mortem confirmed that the cause of death was a significant head injury.